[t]https://i.imgur.com/AM6hMIA.png[/t]
Half of Russia's 144m population lives in the red zone shown here
I like how Crimea is marked as being part of Russia. Yeah I know it's de facto part of Russia, but still, nice gentle propaganda there. No wonder though, the source of that image being a Russian site.
[QUOTE=Jukka K;49021093]I like how Crimea is marked as being part of Russia. Yeah I know it's de facto part of Russia, but still, nice gentle propaganda there. No wonder though, the source of that image being a Russian site.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I just noticed that
woops
Halloween day folks, so that means some neato pictures of scary places.
[B]Sedlec Ossuary[/B]
[thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Sedlec_Ossuary_-_the_Schwarzenberg_coat-of-arms.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Kostnice_Sedlec.JPG[/thumb]
[thumb]http://www.roughguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/42-48922036-1680x1050.jpg[/thumb]
[B]Hill Of Crosses[/B]
[thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Kry%C5%BEi%C5%B3_kalnas_%28G%C3%B3ra_Krzy%C5%BCy%29.JPG/1280px-Kry%C5%BEi%C5%B3_kalnas_%28G%C3%B3ra_Krzy%C5%BCy%29.JPG[/thumb]
[thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Kryziu_kalnas_nakti_2014-12-25.jpg/1280px-Kryziu_kalnas_nakti_2014-12-25.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Colina_de_las_Cruces%2C_Lituania%2C_2012-08-09%2C_DD_12.JPG/1280px-Colina_de_las_Cruces%2C_Lituania%2C_2012-08-09%2C_DD_12.JPG[/thumb]
[QUOTE=richard9311;49019445]This is our campus administration building.
[img_thumb]https://madokami.com/yw859y.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]https://madokami.com/hps8ms.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
CPP?
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49021055][t]https://i.imgur.com/AM6hMIA.png[/t]
Half of Russia's 144m population lives in the red zone shown here[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/JmDj34u.gif[/t]
well that's what happens
[img]https://38.media.tumblr.com/6bcef4726ca780579ca85dbd8cb495a6/tumblr_nvmc9q90ZS1uo4yrqo3_500.gif[/img]
[quote]A horse skeleton in Eadweard Muybridge’s “The Attitudes of Animals in Motion” (1881). Muybridge posed and photographed a skeleton then projected the series of images from a Zoopraxiscope disc, which makes this possibly the earliest instance of stop-gap animation.[/quote]
[editline]1st November 2015[/editline]
"Stop-Gap" meaning "Stop motion" more or less
[i]Before Wal-Mart entered Canada in 1994 the country was littered with medium to large chain stores of varying names. Loblaws, Overweitea, Sobeys, Zehrs, Woolco. The list is long.
In southern Ontario in particular existed one particular chain. Knob Hill Farms.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xYiUOORMY[/media]
The market chain was initiated in 1954 by Steve Stavro. After opening a dozen stores by 1964 he decided to take a radical and new approach of a large store containing a vast variety of products. Dubbed "Food Terminals" they were the earliest instances of the modern Big-Box Store with their first terminal opening with 65000 square feet of floorspace. In 1983 Knob Hill Farms opened the Worlds Largest Supermarket. 226000 square feet of space inside the former Ontario Malleable Iron Company Limited in Oshawa, Ontario.
[img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8113/8693550414_732959c352_c.jpg[/img]
[t]http://www.globalairphotos.com/images/on/cambridge/2002/cbh2002_012.jpg[/t]
By the early 90's the brand and its Food Terminals were advertised all over Southern Ontario newspapers, television and radio with their distinctive jingle, "You get your money's value when you shop, at Knob Hill Farms."
In 1994 Wal-Mart purchased the assets of Woolco and began its entry into Canada. For the remainder of the 90's many of Canada's chain stores began to struggle with the changing times and Wal-Mart's highly competitive edge. By the year 2000, Kmart had exited Canada, Eatons had gone bankrupt, Zellers was wavering. Finally after years of financial losses and multiple closures, Knob Hill Farms closed it's final Food Terminal known as "The Weston site" and filed for bankrupcy.
[img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8253/8692433429_63b5e16459_b.jpg[/img]
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The ghost of the company exists now in the now disused Oshawa Food Terminal. It has recently been slated for demolition in preparation for construction of a new GO Transit rail station. Steve Stavro died on April 24 2006 and is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in what can only be expressed as his final gesture of "Go Big or Go Home".
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QtybMDIoGgQ/T5W3EHFic3I/AAAAAAAAIMo/-5Vl9HzOw7o/s1600/stavros+monument.jpg[/img]
An Indian War memorial at Neuve Chapelle from WW1 with signs of 'battle-damage' from WW2, but more than likely intentional shots from hateful German soldiers in WW2.
[img]http://s22.postimg.org/mgs4kbyq9/DSCF1257.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;49022771]CPP?[/QUOTE]
Yeah. Too bad for a school full of engineers; they built it improperly on a fault line.[URL="http://www.thepolypost.com/news/faulty-cla-building-destined-for-destruction/article_3ab7603e-9bf4-11e2-8e2e-0019bb30f31a.html"] They're going to tear it down in a few years.[/URL]
[QUOTE=richard9311;49033074]Yeah. Too bad for a school full of engineers; they built it improperly on a fault line.[URL="http://www.thepolypost.com/news/faulty-cla-building-destined-for-destruction/article_3ab7603e-9bf4-11e2-8e2e-0019bb30f31a.html"] They're going to tear it down in a few years.[/URL][/QUOTE]
Shame, you would think that the engineers would know a thing or five after what happened in Northridge.
Hi folks, let's celebrate and commemorate Bob Ross with these happy little paintings of his!
God bless!
[thumb]http://www3.pcmag.com/media/images/363265-bob-ross.jpg?thumb=y[/thumb]
[thumb]http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb4t4fnrbQ1qd7ygho1_1280.jpg[/thumb][thumb]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/85/65/6e/85656e7576a0b995372f4926f098f866.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://www.deshow.net/d/file/cartoon/2008-12/bob-ross-landscape-painting-281-8.jpg[/thumb][thumb]https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/campfire_banner1.jpg?w=1024[/thumb]
Bob Ross is like a slightly better Thomas Kinkade. He knows when to show restraint, unlike Kinkade, but his paintings and his general style are all more or less unremarkable. He does a fantastic job, to be sure, but he never really evolved as an artist.
That said, his paintings are really good for what they are, and they made him happy, so who are we to judge him for a lack of experimentation?
Ross's paintings are about the experience, rather than the product, I guess
On both occasions of my watching Bob Ross on youtube, his gentle but cheerful demeanor and voice have nearly put me to sleep by the end of the episode. It didn't hurt that the dreamscapes of his paintings were also quite relaxing.
Cheers, Bob.
[img]http://images.realclear.com/290452_5_.jpg[/img]
Bob Ross had a distinguished military career in the U.S. Air Force. Having risen to the rank of Master Sergeant and having been billeted as a First Sergeant for company-sized forces.
[quote]He eventually rose to the rank of master sergeant and served as the first sergeant of the U.S. Air Force Clinic at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. In Alaska, Ross first saw the snow and mountains that later became recurring themes in his artwork. He developed his quick-painting technique to create art for sale in brief daily work breaks. Having held military positions that required him to be, in his own words, "mean" and "tough", "the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work", Ross decided that if he ever moved on from the military, he would never scream again.[/quote]
I found this while looking for Spaceship cockpit wallpapers... thought it was cool enough to share.
Illustration of a "Canadian Spaceship" by a man called Mattias Adolfsson. He's got some illustrated books about if you like this sort of thing.
[thumb]http://36.media.tumblr.com/be5f6d6ce6612bd6a8106b8e8684ae35/tumblr_midij6U3er1qzzu4yo1_1280.jpg[/thumb]
There's some neat pop culture references in there, too. Like the Flux Capacitor. :v:
Is that the fucking piano from close encounters? :v:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/gp25kaG.gif[/img]
[url]http://nasa.tumblr.com/post/132431385284/15-years-of-station-told-in-15-gifs[/url]
[quote]From 1998 to 2011, five different space agencies representing 15 countries assembled the International Space Station, the largest structure ever built in space. Today humans are still living and work in the orbital laboratory. November 2, 2015 marks the 15th anniversary of continuous human presence onboard.[/quote]
Is it kind of sad that the person who is being watched by the most people right now on Twitch is Bob Ross?
I mean on a gaming live streaming website, that is legit the most fucking awesome thing ever.
R.I.P Bob Ross
[QUOTE=woolio1;49033952]Bob Ross is like a slightly better Thomas Kinkade. He knows when to show restraint, unlike Kinkade, but his paintings and his general style are all more or less unremarkable. He does a fantastic job, to be sure, but he never really evolved as an artist.
That said, his paintings are really good for what they are, and they made him happy, so who are we to judge him for a lack of experimentation?[/QUOTE]
I think one of the main purposes of Bob's style was to show that anybody could paint. A small child could learn his techniques and make stuff which looks pretty much as good as what he made. He had a fair amount of know-how, that's clear; I'm sure if he put himself to task, he could have painted pictures which were much better than what he did. But the finest detail he does in any of his work is with a palette knife. And as said above: his paintings were as much about the journey as the actual finished image (which were, regardless, pretty much always something you could imagine hung up on a wall).
[QUOTE=OvB;49035668][img]http://i.imgur.com/gp25kaG.gif[/img]
[url]http://nasa.tumblr.com/post/132431385284/15-years-of-station-told-in-15-gifs[/url][/QUOTE]
and here's an hour long guided tour of the entire ISS in 2012
[video=youtube;afBm0Dpfj_k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBm0Dpfj_k[/video]
An ammunition ship is hit by a kamikaze.
[vid]http://webm.host/362db/vid.webm[/vid]
[QUOTE=download;49039258]An ammunition ship is hit by a kamikaze.
[vid]http://webm.host/362db/vid.webm[/vid][/QUOTE]
Imagine being assigned to that ship. Stuck in the middle of battle, on a ship with nowhere to go, and which is packed to the brim with every kind of explosive ammunition conceivable.
At least it was unimaginably quick. Wow.
[QUOTE=download;49039258]An ammunition ship is hit by a kamikaze.
[vid]http://webm.host/362db/vid.webm[/vid][/QUOTE]
Reminds of the atomic bomb test videos from Bikini Atoll.
I wonder what happened to the people on the other ships? It seems like if they weren't below deck, they would have been flung off the ships if they weren't killed instantly.
[QUOTE=download;49039258]An ammunition ship is hit by a kamikaze.
[vid]http://webm.host/362db/vid.webm[/vid][/QUOTE]
I'm not sure why, but i am having a hard time believing that's 'just' ammunition.
[QUOTE=lekkimsm;49041641]I'm not sure why, but i am having a hard time believing that's 'just' ammunition.[/QUOTE]
So, what is it then?
You would be amazed just how big conventional explosions can get, especially ship explosions.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/uFGaDxu.jpg[/img]
Pictured, the Japanese battleship Yamato suffering a magazine explosion after capsizing. That's most likely well over a hundred 46cm high explosive and incendiary shells going up at once. In the lower left, you can see one of the escorting destroyers for scale. That ammunition ship was undoubtably a lot smaller than the largest battleships ever constructed, but considering it's only role was to carry ammo, it was presumably carrying A LOT of explosives.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/YWtUncM.jpg[/img]
And here is a rather more related image. This is part of the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, in which an ammunition ship exploded at anchor in Halifax, completely obliterating everything for about 160 hectares and killing thousands. Admittedly it was carrying a cargo of mostly raw explosives, but the point still stands.
And don't forget that explosion in China. Explosions can be very big.
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